Howard Spring
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Description
Howard Spring was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave and, later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman.
Books
All the day long
The story is in Cornwall where the lead character, Maria Legassick, and her sisters Bella and Louisa, and brother, Roger, are the sons and daughters of a Cornish vicar.
These lovers fled away
Three generations of English people, through two great wars and a depression.
Hard facts
The story of Daniel Dunkerley, printer and entrepreneur and Alec Dillwoth, would-be-poet, his sister Elsie, and their respective families and Theodore Crystal, curate, set in Manchester from 1885.
Tumbledown Dick or All People and no Plot
It's about a boy living in the country,whose mother falls ill.His father is unable to look after him,so takes him to Manchester to stay with his uncle & aunt.They own a pet shop.Also staying at the shop is Uncle Oswald,He is a magician and leads the boy on all sorts of gentle adventures,meeting various extraordinary characters.It is a charming book which captures the feel of days gone by.
Rachel Rosing
Sequel to Shabby Tiger. Beautiful and calculating, the heartless social climber Rachel Rosing's story of her marriage, career as an actress and near fame until a final disaster.
There is no armour
Family saga of Edward Pentecost RA, from 1899 Manchester to Cornwall and London, 1946. A successful artist looks back on his life and family.